Damon A. Williams is a movement builder, organizer, hip-hop performing artist, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of supply trips to support the Ferguson uprising in resistance to the murder of Mike Brown. Williams and #LetUsBreathe transplanted the experiences from the front lines and continue to organize direct actions and community enrichment events throughout the streets of Chicago and in their movement building community center The #BreathingRoom Space, with the mission of utilizing cultural production and popular education to redistribute power and resources, eradicate systemic violence, and transform inequity. In the summer of 2020 Damon co-created the Black Abolitionist and launched #DefundCPD, a mass redistributive campaign aiming to redirect power and resources away from the Chicago Police Department. Damon is also the co-host of AirGo, a radio show and podcast showcasing culture workers reshaping Chicago and beyond for the more equitable and creative. Damon is the co-founder of Respair Production & Media (RPM). RPM is an ecosystem hub creating and supporting the media needed to reshape culture toward liberation. Based in Chicago, Respair Production and Media (RPM) builds new media projects in partnership with social movement participants and visionaries, enabling their work to reach new audiences and creating space for the ideological frameworks and material needs of those reimagining our world to be heard, shared, and supported.